conf/95017: Timezone rules are out of date.

[Edwin Groothuis]

The following reply was made to PR conf/95017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: conf/95017: Timezone rules are out of date.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:42:59 +1000

 On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 04:00:42AM +0000, Mark Andrews wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR conf/95017; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
 > To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
 > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: conf/95017: Timezone rules are out of date. 
 > Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:50:39 +1100
 > 
 >  > That's why I made misc/zoneinfo.
 >  > 
 >  > Well, after the problem occured of course :-(
 >  > 
 >  > Edwin
 >  
 >  	I can understand for misc/zoneinfo for branches that are
 >  	not offically supported anymore.  However RELENG_4 is still
 >  	offically supported.
 
 Well, more for people who want to update their zoneinfo files without
 upgrading their whole system.
 
 >  	Also for misc/zoneinfo to be useful you need hooks in base
 >  	to prevent the port being overwritten whenever you do a
 >  	post security installworld.
 
 Nice idea. I'll add an option to overwrite /usr/src/share/zoneinfo.
 Or do you think this is not enough?
 
 Edwin
 
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